Socrates of Kamchatka blends documentary and fiction to tell a story about the regime
change and its effect on a small community in the Far East of Russia. It follows Anfisa and her childhood horse for the past 30 years until 2012,
when Anfisa becomes a very successful entrepreneur and Socrates is murdered by her neighbors put of envy and spite. Socrates’
voiceover is written in the tradition of “skaz” – a Russian subliterary idiom, mixture of naïve existentialism and absurdism,
folk lyricism, opinion and fact. Narrated by Sergey Dreyden (lead actor of Sokurov’s “Russian Arc”).

On average 4,200 people crossed every day in 2015. After disembarking, children get wrapped up
into silver and gold thermal blankets and we tensely watch how the golden foil, quite eerie at first, morphs into regal finery and turns these
children of foreign lands into precious gifts to us all – wonderful, fabulous, carrying the mystery of the future.
2018 XXV Visible Evidence International Documentary Conference
2018 Fargo Film Festival
2017 Global Impact Film Festival, Washington DC
2017 SR Socially Relevant Film Festival, NYC
2017 Impact Docs Film Festival (Award of Recognition)2017 Docuwest Film Festival, Denver, CO
2017 Obermann Artist Residency
2017 Peace on Earth Film Festival, Chicago, IL (Best Short Documentary)2016 Social Justice Film Festival in Seattle, WA
2016 Iowa Public Television
2016 “Iphigenia at Lesvos” a text/film essay is published by TCG

Armed Defense (2013) Short fiction narrative 9 min.

Adapted the script from a short story “Guns” by a Russian writer Dmitry Bakin.
A man comes to his home in Connecticut, burns all his personal items and sets up machine guns and barbed wire around the house.
He is preparing to stand his ground and defend himself and his home against an immanent attack of a powerful but invisible enemy.

Second Egyptian (2007)Short fiction narrative
adapted from a story by Marina Palei17 min.

A Russian woman and an Egyptian man meet in NYC. She has no green card and hasn't eaten for days. He has a green card and invites her to his home, where he cooks her a dinner and tells her he is a virgin.

2008 Arts On the Lake, Screening & Discussion, Kent, NY
UFVA Conference, Colorado Springs, CO (award finalist)
New filmmakers Series at Anthology Film Archive, NY
Women's International Film Festival, South Florida
Arpa International Film Festival in LA, CA
San Diego Women Film Festival (Best Narrative Award)

My American Neighbor (2007) documentary essay 30 min.
A look at America and the American Dream (and especially inalienable right to pursue happiness) from a distance. U.S. citizens who live abroad reflect on the importance of distance in one’s understanding of homeland.